Donald E. Walker
Donald E. Walker’s research connects language processing with access to information. His publications include text-analysis systems, structured-text retrieval, and machine-readable dictionaries. In 1969, Walker published work on computational linguistic techniques in an online text-analysis system. Walker, Jerry Hobbs, and Robert Amsler described a system relating English requests to document passages through logical representations. The paper also studies deriving these representations from the structure of text.
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Timeline
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1969
Text-analysis systems
In 1969, Walker published work on computational linguistic techniques in an online text-analysis system.
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1982
Shared structured-text research
Walker, Jerry Hobbs, and Robert Amsler described a system relating English requests to document passages through logical representations. They also studied deriving these representations from the structure of text.
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1984
Lexical information
Walker published Machine-Readable Dictionaries in 1984.
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1990
Research recognition
AAAI elected Donald E. Walker as a Fellow in 1990.
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